Business: Trade Trooper

As the U.S. Special Trade Representative, Texas Lawyer Robert Strauss
had a well-earned reputation for pugnacity. Japan's Yoshizane Iwasa,
former Fuji Bank chief, recalls that "I met him three times, and
each time he pounded the table." It may come as a relief to those
who deal with the U.S. on trade and tariff matters that among the
qualities Jimmy Carter says he values in Strauss's successor are his
quietness and modesty.

Reubin O'Donovan Askew charged out of the Florida legislature in 1970 to
become the Sunshine State's first successive...